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Barnaba da Modena was a fourteenth-century Italian painter whose activity is chiefly documented in Genoa. A workshop contract of 1361 records his presence in the city and sheds light on his work with assistants. His religious painting combines tempera on wood with gold, which contributes to the presentation of sacred figures. In a documented Virgin and Child, inscriptions on the frame, halo and scroll closely connect the image with devotional words. The Bolognese and Sienese influences identified by the National Gallery complement this Genoese context. His pictorial language continued to find followers in Liguria and Piedmont, extending beyond his own working life and into the following century.
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Tempera
Modena, um 1328/30 - nach 1386
tempera
Date to be documented
Published result : 150000 CHF
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Estimate : CHF 150000
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